Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] platform/chrome: Standardize Chrome OS keyboard backlight name

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Apr 04 2019 - 13:43:41 EST


On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:36 AM Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:11 AM Nick Crews <ncrews@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We want all backlights for the system keyboard to
> > use a common name, so the name "platform::kbd_backlight"
> > would be better than the current "chromeos::kbd_backlight"
> > name. Normally this wouldn't be worth changing, but the new
> > Wilco keyboard backlight driver uses the "platform" name.
> > We want to make it so all Chrome OS devices are consistent,
> > so we'll change the name here too.
> >
>
> Wondering - who is the "we" you are talking about ?

This also has a potential of breaking existing setups if somebody did
happen to match on entire name instead of suffix. Such changes have to
be considered very carefully; at this point I am against of doing
this.

Thanks.

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Dmitry